If you're excited for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

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Perhaps it's partially due to the horror work he has done during his career, but Donald Sutherland has always had an intimidating presence about him. While he’s clearly an amicable and good-natured soul, you can tell that if he really wanted something he would be able to get.

Gregory Wakeman
Nov 10, 2014

The Aggressive Way Donald Sutherland Got Himself Cast In The Hunger Games

Teen Choice Awards Go With Divergent, The Fault In Our Stars

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was probably the biggest surprise for me at the movies in 2013. While I didn’t hate the first film in the franchise by any means, its sequel was able to expertly enhance the strongest aspects of the established world and new and interesting risks.

And because the MTV Movie Awards are a show for the people, the smash-comedy hit We’re the Millers racked up 6 nominations, including Best Shirtless Performance for Jennifer Aniston. Who says this isn’t the Golden Age of Cinema?

Sean O'Connell
Mar 06, 2014

MTV Movie Awards Bet Big On American Hustle, Wolf Of Wall Street

I'll be recapping the highs and lows of the movie business experienced over the past 12 months. 2013 has been a pretty fascinating time for film, full of reversals of fortune, dizzying successes and even some truly polarizing pictures. So let's look back and GIF out!

Lionsgate Brings In A Billion Dollars For The Second Straight Year

The flame under The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began to sputter this weekend and the movie dropped 63%. It dropped out of first place, leaving room for Frozen, which held on stronger, to have its shot at number one.

The Thanksgiving weekend was big news for a handful of major players while the rest of the field had very little to be thankful for. It was a tale of file and ice as last weekend's number one The Hunger Games: Catching Fire went up against the highly anticipated Disney animated feature Frozen.

It wasn’t just a good month for Fandango. This month was their best month ever, as November managed to top the online movie ticketing service’s previous record for the most tickets sold in a single month by more than 12%. Fandango credits a number of contributing factors for their success this month, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Thor: The Dark World and Frozen among them.

It seems movie theaters will be playing songs of ice and fire this weekend, as the Hunger Games sequel and Disney’s Frozen are likely to light up the box office. Early estimates suggest Catching Fire will come out on top, but Frozen won’t be far behind. Catching Fire’s estimated five-day weekend hall is in the $90 million range, while Frozen is believed to do about $80 million for the same time period.

It's not just for the fun and flare that Caesar Flickerman and Effie Trinket bring to the movie, it's for the way their carefully crafted characters subtly set up the larger world of Panem and its evolving politics.

No book ever gets adapted to the screen with 100% accuracy, and even more so than The Hunger Games, Catching Fire risks a few changes that make an enormous difference in the quality of the story. Some of the changes are holdovers from the first film-- we see conversations between President Snow and the Head Gamemaker that didn't exist in the book, and Katniss's endless internal monologue becomes Jennifer Lawrence's incisive performance

Katey Rich
Nov 27, 2013

6 Big Changes In Catching Fire That Make It Better Than The Book

Have you ever seen little children fight? More often than not, they lead with their faces and lose all ability to throw punches after being struck once. They have no endurance, no will power and no discernable skills whatsoever. That was Peeta during round one. In theory, he should have been able to offer something given he got a pretty good score from the judges, but instead, he flopped around like an injured fish and eventually got pretty creative with hiding spots.

Mack Rawden
Nov 26, 2013

6 Reasons Peeta Sucks Less In Hunger Games: Catching Fire

He might not attract as many eyeballs as the pop-culture-savvy J-Law, who’s entrenched – at the moment – as the media’s darling. But his contributions behind-the-scenes are ensuring that those “eyeballs” are satisfied with what they are seeing … and will continue to be satisfied as the series progresses.

Sean O'Connell
Nov 26, 2013

The Future Of Hunger Games: Why Francis Lawrence Is As Crucial As Jennifer

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire blazed quite a trail through theaters this weekend. The sequel to last year's The Hunger Games set a new record for the highest opening for the month of November at $161 million. That's also a step up from its predecessor which opened at $152 million.

Scott Gwin
Nov 24, 2013

Weekend Box Office: Catching Fire Blazes Record Breaking Trail To Number One

Those involved with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire can officially exhale. Thanks to good reviews, good buzz and very popular source material, we’ve known the film would be a pretty huge hit for awhile now, but still, there’s nothing quite like actually seeing the money roll in to ease any remaining nerves.

Mack Rawden
Nov 23, 2013

Hunger Games: Catching Fire Is Killing It At The Box Office

Did you think that the movie was as good as the first one? Do you think that Francis Lawrence was a good replacement for Gary Ross? Has your opinion changed about any of the characters? What surprised you about the movie? What did you hate? Vote in our poll, and hit the comments to let us know your thoughts, feelings, and opinions. And as the title says, SPOILERS ARE WELCOME!

Eric Eisenberg
Nov 22, 2013

Discuss The Hunger Games: Catching Fire With Spoilers And Rate It

It was a tall order for director Francis Lawrence to bring the more sprawling Catching Fire book to the big screen, but mostly he manages to retain the heart of the film and many of its key moments, while trimming off some of the fat.

Jessica Rawden
Nov 22, 2013

Eight Big Differences Between The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Book And Movie

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is already burning it up at the box office this weekend, raking in a reported $25.2 million in late night screenings domestically Thursday night, comfortably surpassing the first film in the popular young adult franchise, which took in $19.7 million back in 2012. Assuming the film continues to perform as well this weekend, Catching Fire may very well break the record for a domestic opening weekend in November.

Kelly West
Nov 22, 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Cashes In At The Box Office On Thursday Night

Looking to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Nebraska and The Delivery Man for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of YA-inspired adventures, independent comedies, and funny foreign features.

At a recent press event for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire I had the great opportunity to sit down with the direct to talk all about how he constructed both the story and the aesthetics of the new blockbuster movie.

Tonight the die hard Hunger Games fans will be flocking to midnight screenings of the new film, Catching Fire. But there's a chance that at least a few newbies will be wrapped into the bunch-- parents shepherding tweens, significant others doing their honeys a favor, or even someone who's seen Jennifer Lawrence's magnetic public appearances and can't resist the draw

Katey Rich
Nov 21, 2013

10 Things You Need To Know Before Seeing Catching Fire

It's bizarre to remember that, just a year and a half ago, The Hunger Games was seen as a bit of a gamble-- a modestly budgeted book adaptation featuring no real stars, and awkwardly dancing around the fact that it was a movie about kids killing each other. Now, on the eve of Catching Fire's premiere, everyone in the movie is a star

Katey Rich
Nov 21, 2013

Catching Fire Selling More Advance Tickets Than Any Other Film This Year

I've said a lot of mean things about Sam Claflin over the years, and I'm here to make amends for it. The 27-year-old Brit was so deadly dull in the only two movies he's made, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Snow White and the Huntsman, that when he was cast as Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire I immediately started throwing daggers

Katey Rich
Nov 20, 2013

How Catching Fire Changed My Mind About Sam Claflin

Cookie plays Cookiness Evereat, and he and his friends must face the challenges of the Hungry Games, which include pestering monkeys, food-centric puzzles, and lessons in finding patterns. The tributes have to stop and think. And it's tricky. Or as Cookie puts in his signature clunky vernacular, "Boy, being strong heroine of an entire franchise hard work!"

Kristy Puchko
Nov 18, 2013

Watch Sesame Street Perfectly Parody The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Another dreary Sunday, but honestly, how down can anyone get when Katniss, Gale, that sap Peeta and the rest of the Panem subversives get together for another round on the big screen. Plus, Vince Vaughn is fathering a small community of kids. Those seem like cures for the gloomy Sunday blues

Doug Norrie
Nov 17, 2013

This Rotten Week: Predicting Catching Fire And Delivery Man Reviews

This scene in the film comes after Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) have completed their Victory Tour around the 12 districts of Panem and have arrived at a fancy party in the Capitol to celebrate their win in the 74th annual Hunger Games. As great as the two heroes look in their bizarre future fashion, though, the real star of this clip is Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket.

Eric Eisenberg
Nov 14, 2013

Katniss, Peeta And Effie Get Ready To Party In New Hunger Games: Catching Fire Clip

The cat may have been hired for its excellent hissing abilities, but it looked nothing like the Buttercup described in the book, as a "hideous-looking cat" with a coat either the color of rotting squash or a buttercup flower, depending on who you asked. Katniss's younger sister Prim loves Buttercup, and Katniss can't stand him; believe it or not the cat plays a pretty significant role in the third book

Katey Rich
Nov 13, 2013

Which Key Role Did Catching Fire Recast After The Hunger Games?

Sure, you can put your hair in a long braid, maybe toss on a brown leather jacket, and head to your local screening of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire next weekend. But why not prepare by making sure you'll be really decked out for the next one?<

Katey Rich
Nov 12, 2013

Catching Fire Giveaway: Win A Mockingjay Pin, Posters And More!

There are makeup and nail polish lines and Subway sandwich tie-ins and an entire fake magazine dedicated to its fancy clothes. So of course The Hunger Games was going to wind up with a theme park, no matter how cringingly out-of-step with the book's messages that might actually be